Daily

Luk_9:23  And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Mat 10:38  And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

Mar 8:34  And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

DENY SELF.

TAKE UP A CROSS.

FOLLOW CHRIST.

Daily this is our instruction.

PRAYING DAILY-  'Mat 6:9  After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. …Mat 6:11  Give us this day our daily bread. '

Do we deny our selfish ways?

Do we take up our cross, do we even know how?

Do we truly follow Christ?

And do we pray daily?

We can't refuse to take the cross and follow Christ, it doesn't work that way.  We listen to our Savior only in the things pleasing to our ears, our desires.  We have to listen to Christ in all ways, so why don't we? Why do we keep getting in our own way?

We have an unseen enemy who is around us all the time and this enemy will stop at nothing to keep us from following Christ in any way. Fortunately Christ is greater than our enemy and has defeated Him so we cling to Christ, our Savior, the only one who has ever defeated our enemy. We don't dare try to defeat him on our own, we rely upon the Savior.  As we rely upon our Savior we do all we can to live as He instructs us to live.  We do all we can to deny our selfish ways.  We take up a cross.  We pray.

We do all by the grace of our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, now and forever!  AMEN.